If there’s anything we like here at X360A, it’s giveaways. Big ones at that. We’ve given away 35,700 Microsoft Points for a Trials Evolution HD competition before, 50,400 for a Dead Space 3 competition, and 65,100 for an Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood one, but this time, we wanted to go big. So big that it eclipses everything we’ve ever done before on this here site.

“How much bigger than 65,000 can you realistically go?” you ask, “100,000?” We could do, but still we weren’t satisfied. We’ve gone much bigger this time!

To mark the upcoming release of Splinter Cell Blacklist, we’ve teamed up with Ubisoft UK to give away 200,000 Microsoft Points. Well, 201,600 to be precise. That’s 2,100 Microsoft Points a day for 90 days, with the final day’s winner taking home 12,600 points. In case you were wondering, that’s enough Microsoft Points to buy 168 copies of Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, which incidentally is out this week.

Starting from the 24th of May - the start of our MCM live show where Splinter Cell Blacklist will be headlining - we’ll be giving away 2,100 Microsoft Points a day until the game’s August 23rd UK release date. Yes, the word you’re looking for is wowzers!

What do you have to do to be in with a chance of winning? Well, it’s fairly simple. All you have to do is watch a video on the competition launch zone and answer a question on the entry page during the competition weeks. Then all you have to do is just cross your fingers. What the video will be and what the question will be will differ from one week to the next, so pay attention to that page and to the schedule. Once you’ve entered for that stage, you’ll be in the mix for the duration of that stage, so fear not, you can just sit back and hope you’re a winner then. For the full schedule of events, check out this page here.

So that’s it folks. Put this one in the diaries, you know, for 3 months! Surely the biggest competition we’ve ever done, and most definitely the longest! You'll find a link to the zone on the front page for the duration of the competition, so check back periodically. We'll let you know via here and the social media channels too, so make sure you're following us, and you can even track the winners of all the prizes in our "Hall of Fame" - which will be up after stage one, and will look something like this.

The stage show starts on Friday and the competition opens officially on Saturday, so good luck, folks!

Note: This is a Europe only competition, due to the region restrictions put on Microsoft Points by Microsoft.

[Update:] We've just pulled the winners for the first week, stage two is open now. The winner's gamertags were:

zabza Penguin30 Phil3992 strayiceball wiseman187 Endgegner TM vosboy

Incidentally, the correct answer was Charlie. Oh, and we'll have the awesome Hall of Fame up after E3 - basically, whenever I've had chance to build it. Congrats to the winners and good luck to everyone in the next stage!

[Update #2:] Good morning, folks! Great news, we've just pulled the next 21 winners of our competition, bringing stage two to a close. The 21 winners' gamertags are as follows:

[Update #3] Okay, folks. Apologies in the delay, which was courtesy to a package going missing and me disappearing off to a wedding, but nevertheless, we're here now... and here are the 35 winners of stage #3 (stage 4, 5 and 6 to come - as well as an updated Hall of Fame).

The 35 winners' gamertags are as follows, and their codes are already in their email inbox):

Congratulations once again, folks. The answer to this stage was, of course, Mickey Rourke. One more stage left... 14 winners, one of those who takes home over 10,000 Microsoft Points. Those will be pulled in the next day or so, so check back then... the Hall of Fame will be done then too and will look real purdy!

[Update #6] Folks, the last batch of winners have now been drawn and I can confirm that the 13 walking away with 2,100 Microsoft Points are as follows:

And finally, the lucky individual to walk away with 12,600 is... *drum roll*

Rulerbar

Thanks to everyone who took part, it was a blast. Congrats to all the winners and commiserations to all those that didn't win. There's always next time. Check back tomorrow and we'll have updated our awesome Hall of Fame, where you can see all the winners and their avatars - it'll look super pretty, I promise.

@#27 - So yeah, you enter once per stage. Stage one is nearly over, as soon as we have the codes (they'll be here sometime this week) we'll announce the winners, update the competition and kick off the next phase.

@36 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think X360A is running this competition on behalf of Ubisoft UK. Therefore, Webb[STAFF]'s comment (#29) is confirmation (at least to me anyway) that it's okay to enter once per stage. The only quandary I'd have is whether to enter in future stages if I was lucky enough to win during an earlier stage. I would seem a bit greedy.

Next round is set to go live tomorrow. Got the codes now to send out to the stage 2 winners, so will kick off stage 3 then. We tweaked the dates somewhat as well, mainly down to E3 kicking our asses =P

And yes, CellFrame, I can confirm 100% that it's once per stage. Also, hyphen, no hyphen, spelling, not an issue, the answers all go into a spreadsheet and I know what you mean.

@#51 - It's all updated now, so get entering. Not officially opening the competition's next stage until Friday, so you get a unofficial headstart to enter now... and yes, you can enter now. The new winners (of which there'll be LOADS of them!) for the last stage will be selected when I get my next shipment of codes, hopefully early next week, and then we're on schedule from now till launch day then. The vids that are tied to the competition from now are shorter and more concise and awesome. Particularly looking forward to the last stage ;)

Nope, competition running as normal, had to delay the prize giveaway though as we're currently in a dispute regarding a missing package with a courier, ha. Fear not, it'll sort itself out soon and we'll give all the prizes away in one big burst then =)

Folks, good news! The codes dispute has been resolved and all the codes are being sent out to me today (should be here by Friday), so hopefully, we can pull the other 60 winners out the hat over the weekend =) Huzzah!

Folks, just another update, got ALL the codes now. The bad news, I'm off for a short break for a friend's wedding. Will pick ALL the winners when I'm back towards the back end of next week. Thanks for your patience.

Congrats Rulerbar. I got in from work yesterday to see the list of winners of Stage 3,4 and 5, and when I didn't see my gt among those I thought my chance of winning had gone. But I was lucky enough to be a 2100 MSP winner in Stage 6. Now I just got to figure out what to spend it on.

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